Word: mycenaean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lose sight of the long centuries -- there were eight of them -- that separate the heroes of the Trojan War from the age of Socrates and Aeschylus, which paid homage to them. Much of what lay between was not an unbroken line of glory but a dim interregnum. The Mycenaean Greece that leveled Troy around 1200 B.C. was itself in ruins a hundred years later, smashed by Dorian invaders from the north. There followed a dark age that lasted three centuries, when even the alphabet was lost, and then a long, slow crawl back up to the light...
...about 7 in. in diameter, is the earliest ever found, and may prove that raw glass, later to be transformed into jewelry or goblets, was being shipped from Syria as early as the 15th century B.C. The unusual mixture of objects appears to be from three different ancient cultures, Mycenaean, Cypriot and Canaanite. "A mix of goods," says Bass, "that puzzles...
...week's daylight raid by New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams was trying to smash a ring of ghostwriters who sell term papers to college students. Instead of cocaine or marijuana, the evidence included papers with titles like "The Importance of Fate in Romeo and Juliet" and "Mycenaean and Minoan Architecture." The culprit: a term-paper mill named Collegiate Research Systems Inc. that sells roughly 500 ghostwritten essays in a good month from a 305-page catalogue, grossing about...